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Issue 85 December / January 2017-18
East Cleveland villages fight for improved Police resourcing difficult circumstances I have been impressed with their determination, skilled and tireless hard work in their endeavours to keep our residents safe. "I am pleased that local community leaders and some of our MP”s are highlighting the immediate need for Cleveland Police numbers to be restored to previous levels, as residents, local businesses and victims of crime are concerned that local neighbourhood policing seems to be a thing of the past, as the numbers of police on the beat are smaller. "But success can be achieved. Cleveland Police and PCC Barry Coppinger, have recently worked tirelessly with Redcar and Cleveland Council, Anna Turley MP, the Fire Brigade, Community
Groups and residents of Eston to tackle ASB, arson and other issues on Eston Hills with great success. What has been done there can be done elsewhere. "The Council will continue to work closely with the police on issues across the Borough and urge all local leaders to highlight the need for the Government to bolster Cleveland Police numbers. "This is a difficult time for public services in our region, they all do an amazing and very demanding job every day, and we should be supporting and working with them. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those officers who put their own safety at risk daily to ensure ours “
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iddlesbrough South & East Cleveland MP Simon Clarke showed his support for local residents recently on a rally in Brotton to protest about the lack of visible policing in the East Cleveland area. The rally, organised by The Railway Arms landlord Graham Cutler and Brotton ward Cllr Barry Hunt, attracted well over a 100 people all calling for Cleveland Police to review how it allocates officers across the force area. Graham Cutler opened proceedings with a passionate plea for more policing before handing over to Councillor Hunt. Barry has been at the forefront of many campaigns to improve his East Cleveland home and this one is no different. He dealt fantastically with a couple of hecklers who wanted to make it about Political issues rather than resourcing decisions before acknowledging that he expected the government to play its part as well as the forces leadership. After the event Graham told Coastal View: "We had an absolutely marvellous turnout on the day and it shows we do have a problem out here. It also shows we have an excellent community spirit." Residents heard from Simon Clarke that he had already held meetings with both the Chancellor of the exchequer and the governments policing minister to discuss, amongst other things, the
fact that on some days there are only two police officers covering an area from Guisborough to Staithes and that this is down to how Cleveland Police’s senior team grade the areas they cover. After the event, he said: “It was an incredible display of our community coming together in the way East Cleveland so often delivers. We need to see a fairer distribution of manpower into the villages of the area rather than just into the urban centres of Teesside. I'll be making this case loud and clear to the leadership of the Police and will keep pressing ministers for extra resources. “Our Police officers on the front line do an amazing job but they cannot be expected to be in several places at once. Whilst I fully understand the need to lobby ministers for more resources we cannot just expect extra money to resolve these issues and Cleveland Polices’ senior management must accept the need to review their resourcing decisions to stop short changing our residents. Seeing communities come together like this reminds me of just how incredibly proud I am to be their MP. Together, this is an argument we need to win.” Cllr Alec Brown, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council said: “Cleveland Police have been victims of Tory austerity, losing hundreds officers in recent years. However under these
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